Workflow automation for document-heavy small businesses

One back-office workflow, automated end to end, proven on your own data.

I take the workflow that eats your team's week, automate it, and validate it against your last full month before you rely on it. Every output ties back to a source record. Fixed price, 2 to 3 weeks.

We count the hours your workflow eats, with your numbers. If the math does not work, you keep the count.

A wire tray of mixed loose paperwork on one side of a desk, a laptop showing a spreadsheet in the middle, and one finished document on a green binder on the other side
15 years in financial systems and data
Validated on your own last month of data
Fixed price, quoted against your measured volume

Different paperwork, same problem

Timesheets get chased through email threads. Rate cons get keyed into the TMS by hand. Quotes wait behind a full inbox. Order changes land after the truck is already loaded.

In every case there are documents that have to match, and someone on your team matches them by hand. Those are the quietest hours on your payroll: moving numbers from one place to another, then arguing about them when they disagree.

The workflows I build, by industry

One workflow per engagement, end to end, against the formats you already use.

Stacks of mismatched timesheet forms in wire trays beside a calculator, with one finished invoice and its stapled summary sheet in a green folder
Staffing agencies

Stop chasing timesheets on Friday afternoon

Approved hours live in email threads and 2 spreadsheets. When a client disputes an invoice, tracing it back to the approved timesheet is the worst hour of the billing week. Subvendor invoices get checked against approved hours by hand.

What I build: approved timesheets in whatever format they arrive, client-ready invoices out, and a reconciliation report tying every invoice line to an approved hour. Validated on a full month of your real billing before anyone relies on it.

A dispatcher at two monitors showing load board rows, with a clipboard of carrier paperwork and a headset on the desk in front and a green file holder beside them
Freight brokerages

Stop keying rate cons into the TMS

Carrier packets land and someone rekeys them by hand. Check-call notes get typed into the TMS, then retyped into emails to customers. Between packets and notes, that is where small brokerages lose the most hours per load.

What I build: packet intake that reads the documents, loads your TMS, and captures the check-call notes, with a reconciliation report tying every entry to its source paper. Validated against a month of your real loads. Your TMS stays.

A service shop workbench with a tablet showing a completed job checklist, a work order on a clipboard, copper and brass fittings, and green parts bins on the wall
HVAC, plumbing, electrical

After the job closes: invoice out, review ask out, books that match

The tech closes the job in Jobber or Housecall Pro, and the office side starts by hand: the invoice, the review request, the next-service reminder. And the QuickBooks sync most shops run only goes one direction, so the books still need fixing by hand.

What I build: the layer after the job. Job closes, invoice goes out, review request follows, reminder fires, books stay reconciled, with a report tying every invoice to a completed job. Your tools stay, the retyping goes.

A machine shop front office desk with an unrolled technical drawing weighted by a machined brass part and calipers, a staged quote package in a green folder, the shop floor behind glass
Contract manufacturing

RFQ in, quote staged, nothing dies in an inbox

RFQs hit the inbox faster than quotes leave it. Shops running intake on spreadsheets and email lose work to whoever quotes first, and the fix costs a lot less than an ERP.

What I build: RFQ intake that reads the request, stages the quote package, and keeps a log tying every quote to its source RFQ. Validated on a month of your real RFQs before you rely on it.

A warehouse office desk with order printouts in wire trays, a monitor showing an inventory grid, and an open green binder, with pallet racking and a wrapped pallet through the window
Grocery and distribution

When the 860 lands after the truck is loaded

The transmissions run fine. The hours go to the edges: a customer changes an order after the EDI has landed, and your team patches inventory and invoicing by hand to keep them straight. Chargebacks and short-pays start as small mismatches nobody caught.

What I build: order-change handling and a reconciliation report tying EDI, inventory, and invoicing to each other, validated on a full month of your real orders. SPS or TrueCommerce stays; the manual patching goes.

How it works

1
Count

A 30 minute call. We walk your workflow step by step and count the hours it eats, with your own volume. You get a fixed quote against that number.

2
Build

Built end to end against the formats you already use. Runs hosted by me for a flat monthly fee, or in an account you own. Your tools stay.

3
Prove

Before go-live, the build processes your last full calendar month of real data and we read the reconciliation report together. Then it ships with a run book your staff can operate.

Why my builds are different

Every engagement ships with a reconciliation report: every invoice line, ledger entry, or quote tied to its source record.

I spent 15 years in financial systems and data, where numbers that do not tie to source do not ship. Your automation gets built to the same standard: validated against known answers, tested at your real volume, documented so you are never dependent on me.

Jesus Tolentino
Jesus Tolentino
Financial systems and data, 15 years

Pricing, stated plainly

$1,500 to $3,500 fixed

A single-workflow build, quoted against your measured volume. Half at signing, half at delivery.

$75 to $150 a month

Hosted operation, monitoring and fixes included. Or run it in your own account with no monthly fee.

Larger multi-workflow builds are scoped after the first one proves itself.

Find out what your workflow is costing you

A 30 minute call. We count the hours with your numbers. If the math does not work, you keep the count.

Book a 30 minute workflow review